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As of today (May 11, 2020), 80,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.
In 2018, 80,000 Americans died of the flu. It was a bad flu year.
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It's fascinating how we look at death.
The Infection Fatality Rate of COVID-19 is about 10 times worse than influenza.
Therefore, if we didn't shelter in place, perhaps we would have lost 10x more Americans than the 2018 flu season, which would mean about 1 million deaths.
I've been called callous. But imagine if:
Such draconian measures would save thousands of lives. But would you be in favor of them?
Not all lives are equalIf a US soldier is KIA, his family gets $100,000
When the US military accidentally killed an Afghan boy, they gave his father $1,000 as compensation.
It easy to make deaths look meaningful and meaninglessCite 9/11 and you'll get people emotional quite quickly.
Cite a big number to put things in perspective. For example, 5 million people die from communicable diseases every year:
That's 4.5 Sept 11th happening every day of every year.
It's not either open the economy or close the economyThere's the Swedish way, which allows some opening:
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